Warlock Quest Delayed, Sha of Fear Video, Patch 5.1 Hotfixes, Blue Posts, Comic

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Warlock Class Questline Delayed
The previously mentioned Warlock class questline has been delayed until Patch 5.2. It appears that the green fire reward is confirmed now though! Kosak also mentions that there is no guarantee here, just a plan.



Guild Cloak Transmogrification
Patch 5.1 finally allows for Guild Cloaks to be used for transmogrification!



Method Heroic Sha of Fear 25 Video
Method has released their Sha of Fear kill video.



Patch 5.1 Hotfixes - November 27
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Classes
Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

Paladin (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • The cooldown of Vanish has been reduced to 2 minutes (was 3 minutes).

Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Curse of Enfeeblement and Aura of Enfeeblement now reduce the physical damage dealt by all targets by 10% (was 20%).
  • Aura of Enfeeblement and Aura of the Elements now cost 150 Demonic Fury (was 50), and have a 10 second cooldown.

Creatures
  • Polluted Viceclaw Scuttlers are now much tougher customers.

Items
  • Sky Crystals can no longer function against Alani once Nimbus Shroud has been dispelled.

Dungeons, Raids & Scenarios
Terrace of Endless Spring
  • Corrupted Protectors now deal less damage in the Raid Finder version of this raid.
  • The Sha of Fear
    • A number of bug fixes and adjustments have been made to the Heroic mode version of this encounter:
      • The Sha of Fear will now transition to the Dread Expanse at 66% health (was 50%), and no longer heals when entering the second phase of the encounter.
      • Dread Spawns can now gain up to 5 stacks of Gathering Speed (was 3).
      • Dread Spawns now spawn at a reduced rate.
      • Dread Spawns will no longer sometimes cast Eternal Darkness on an incorrect target.
      • Dread Spawns will now always cast Sha Spine when a player picks up the Orb of Light; the damage of Sha Spine has been reduced.
      • Dread Spawns are no longer fooled by Feign Death.
  • Tsulong
    • The Raid Finder version of this encounter has been tuned to be more appropriate for its intended difficulty.
    • Tsulong will no longer despawn unexpectedly in the Heroic mode version of this encounter.
  • Lei Shi
    • Lei Shi's Spray Ability now increases frost damage taken by 10% per stack in the Raid Finder version of this encounter (was 12%).

Bug Fixes
  • Classes

  • Players can now properly earn credit for the Last Man Standing achievement.
  • The Turkey Shooter can no longer be used on mounted players.
  • Fixed an issue that would cause various items to be awarded to players of the incorrect class or specialization in Raid Finder encounters.
  • Fixed an issue that would prevent some items from The Terrace of Endless Spring from being disenchanted.

Brawler's Guild Invitation Update
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
With the latest patch, 5.1 “Landfall”, we’ve introduced the new feature, the Brawler’s Guild. As we previously announced, entry into the Brawler’s Guild is by invitation only. Invitations can be found on the black market auction house, by invitation from somebody within the guild, and occasionally as drops from certain Horde and Alliance NPCs. Before you rush to your realm’s black market auction house, we wanted to make you aware that invitations may not be available immediately upon realms going live, but should be showing up within the next 24 hours. We wish those of you who choose to take on this next challenge the best of luck in your endeavor.

Patch 5.1: Realm Event Time Changes
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
With Patch 5.1: Landfall we’ve reactivated the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza. To accomplish this we reevaluated the way time-based events work in World of Warcraft. The time zone designation for a realm doesn’t always correlate with its real-world location, and that designation has traditionally directed a player to choose a realm that shares their local time. With cross-realm features like zone coalescing (CRZ) and Raid/Dungeon Finder, linking event reset or lockout times to realm times has caused a lot of confusion, such as zones flipping between day and night upon zoning, and created substantial issues with limited-time events, such as Azeroth’s fishing tournaments.

North American Daily Event Times
In Patch 5.1 we’ve moved most time-based events on North American realms to standardized, region-wide times. Below are the updated event times for all North American realms, regardless of your realm’s local time (excluding Oceanic realms).

Times displayed in North American Pacific Standard Time (GMT -8 hours)

  • Sunrise - 5:30 a.m. PST*
  • Sunset - 6:30 p.m. PST*
  • Daily quests reset - 3:00 a.m. PST
  • Profession cooldowns and farm reset - 3:00 a.m. PST
  • Dungeon & raid lockouts reset - Unchanged (times still shared between NA and Oceanic realms)
  • Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza begins - 2 p.m. PST every Sunday
  • Battleground holidays - 12:00 a.m. every Friday - 12:00 a.m. every Tuesday PST
  • Darkmoon Faire begins - 12:00 a.m. PST first Sunday of every month

Oceanic Daily Event Times
Note that, due to the extreme time zone difference, Oceanic realms have a separate standardized time, and Oceanic realms aren’t coalesced with non-Oceanic realms for cross-realm zones. Oceanic realms are, however, still a part of the North American matchmaking pool for Scenarios, Dungeon Finder, Raid Finder, Battlegrounds, and Arenas, in order to ensure that the matchmaking system is able to draw from a healthy population of players at any given hour. Because of this, raid/dungeon lockouts will continue to reset at the same time for North American and Oceanic realms (i.e. reset times will still vary depending on your local time).

Times displayed as Australian Eastern Standard Time (GMT +10 hours)

  • Sunrise - 5:30 a.m. EST*
  • Sunset - 6:30 p.m. EST*
  • Daily quests reset - 3:00 a.m. EST
  • Profession cooldowns and farm reset - 3:00 a.m. EST
  • Dungeon & raid lockouts reset - Unchanged (times still shared between NA and Oceanic realms)
  • Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza begins - 2 p.m. EST
  • Battleground holidays - 12:00 a.m. every Friday - 12:00 a.m. every Tuesday EST
  • Darkmoon Faire begins - 12:00 a.m. EST first Sunday of every month

*Day/night changeovers are not currently set to the times listed above and will be updated in a hotfix as soon as possible.

For those folks whose play schedules are adversely affected by this, and who are blaming realm coalescing, let me clarify. It was only a matter of time (get it? ... humph) before we moved to this reset system. The problem with the fishing tournaments and CRZ was just a more blunt reminder that having non-standardized reset times is confusing in a game where realm transfers and cross-realm features are a reality.

We've used a similar system for European realms for quite some time and it's cleaner.

The new system will be better for some people, and worse for others, in terms of life schedules. But people have always had different play schedules that we can't always account for, and there are unavoidable inconveniences in that regard. The new system will just take some adjustment.

I'm on a realm where my dailies have been resetting at 1 a.m. my local time, which I've used to my advantage to do back-to-back dailies many nights before bed. I won't be able to do that anymore. But I don't think that's somehow unfair to me. It's logical, to me, for an online, very "real-time" game on the scale of World of Warcraft to have standardized times for time-based content, similar to a basketball game being broadcast live from the west coast.

Why not just CRZ realms with the same time zones together...
Not to patronize you here, but the infrastructure behind World of Warcraft is incredibly complex. As stated in the original post, just because you're on, say, a realm labeled with an east coast time doesn't mean you're connecting to a server cluster or database on the east coast. Look at the Battlegroups. There are no time zone correlations between the realms within each.

Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
PvP Power Tooltip
I'm a little confused. Last night I had 27% and some change for PvP Power and today I have 13.51% Healing PvP Power. Did they really cut it in half? Silent ninja nerf?
Nope, as a dedicated healer you haven't been nerfed. The tooltip on your character sheet was always incorrect, but that issue was fixed in 5.1. Note that the PvP Power you have shouldn't be contributing to your damage output though.

On the same token, dedicated damage dealers and tanks (including hybrid classes using those specializations) no longer benefit from PvP Power for healing. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Loss of Control Alerts
Blizzard. Remove this crap. If player's don't understand what snares and roots are, they shouldn't be playing video games.
On the subject of "hand-holding", there is an option to disable the Loss of Control UI. Just uncheck the box titled Loss of Control Alerts in the Combat section of the Interface menu.

For many others, these are useful user interface elements.

I don't see what's so useful about it. Yeah, I'm CC'd... what else is new.
Some CC is obvious; others, such as Silences or Disarms are somewhat less obvious. We wanted to better communicate when these effects take hold, which is what the new UI element is for. Some players prefer a visual cue and a precise timer regarding when a crowd control effect will end to better plan their next move.

As I said before, if you don't find it useful, you can easily disable it, or configure it to only communicate information that you might find useful.

Well. No offense but there's certain addons that already did that and did it a lot better.
We've added quite a lot of functionality over time that duplicates the effects of useful or popular addons. Naturally, there will be players that prefer the control or customization that those addons offer, but it doesn't hurt to provide a similar option in the default UI.

You can turn it off so it doesn't show icons/timers in the middle of the screen, but even if it is turned off you can not see the cooldowns of abilities on your action bars.
I'll certainly make sure that feedback is passed on. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Upgrading Season 12 to Season 12 Elite Gear
If you upgrade the Regular Season 12 Malevolent gear twice and then say you get 2200 and upgrade to the elite, does your upgrades you already made to the previous gear remain or do you now have to spend additional conquest to upgrade the 2200 gear twice now?
They remain. If a piece of gear is used as currency for a new piece of gear, upgrades are preserved. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

New Daily Quest Drop Rates
The idea is that with some effort (although we are looking at the drop rates being a bit too low), a player can go farm up the materials to summon one of the 5-person bosses who are then trapped in a cage - and from there everyone can fight it. If there are already animals in the cages there is no need to go out into the field to gather materials to summon another. Everyone can fight the boss and get credit for it (and rep), and killing a boss is a daily, so there's no need to kill more than one.

The entire process should be: someone farms up a boss with a Beastmaster's Hunt quest, everyone fights it together and gets the rep, and you only need to do that once a day.

Are you sure its working? I defeated the crane boss once and I didn't get the quest for downing it. I assumed you didn't need to be in the same group.
Did the character already get credit for one of the other two bosses? You only need to down one of them, not all three. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Patch 5.1 New Pets
The new pets are on fairly long spawn timers, and are randomized (i.e. will not spawn on server restart). We've confirmed they have been spawning on some realms, so just keep an eye out!

Is "some" realms rather than all the realms working as intended? Which special realms are these so I can go make alts on them?
They're random, so they're not going to spawn on every realm at the same time. So yeah, working as intended. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Blood-Soaked Invitation
Well I was hoping there was so way I could make money off of it, is there really no way?
Well, you could do Brawler's Guild and try to get to the requisite rank when you can invite another player, then sell that invitation, which is an unbound item that you can sell, trade or gift to a friend.

Were you just killing random guards or what?
The invitations don't drop from guards; they come from certain rare spawn Horde and Alliance npcs. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Cinder Kitten Availability
The Cinder Kitten will be available in the near future. They're still a little young yet to separate from their mother and make them available for adoption. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

PvP Flag on PvE Realms
Is this a bug? These PvE quests for PvE rep loot purchased with PvE valor are flagging everyone for PvP, on a PvE realm.
When are you being flagged? The quest should not flag you. Flagging for PvP should be the same as always on a PvE realm. If you're accidentally attacking opposite faction guards, you will be flagged as always. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Character Death Penalty
The death of a character should be something important, the death penalty is there to make sure players don’t disregard it, in my opinion it’s actually already too easy and too fast to resurrect.
It’s because of the penalty and the lost time when doing a corpse run, that players will be more cautious about their character.
If you decide to resurrect at the spirit healer, it’s because either your character died in a very weird place (and you should be more careful), or you just don’t want to corpse run.

I think we should all be glad that there’s no experience loss as death penalty, that would probably be a bit too harsh, but I do think we need something to keep death from being meaningless.

We’re always open to good and new ideas of what that might be; as long as it’s not “removal of the death penalty”, feel free to chip in.

By "very weird place" you mean large chunks of Panda land especially anywhere near the cloud serpent dailies.
That is something completely different, any time a player is forced to resurrect at the spirit healer while doing quests or anything usual, we will take a look and adjust graveyards or the resurrection functionality if we verify that it happens when players aren’t purposely going out of their way to get into weird inaccessible paths.

So if there’s a specific place, like around the Cloud Serpent dailies area where you might be forced to resurrect at a spirit healer, that can be considered a bug and devs usually fix those by either moving the graveyards, creating new ones or flag them to auto-res players who release in those places, we prefer to do that as we’re still hesitant about adding ghost flying to Pandaria. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Season 11 Gear Return Delayed
Unfortunately, due to some issues, the inclusion of the Season 11 items will need to be delayed, possibly until patch 5.2.

Currently we're planning to make season 11 Cataclysmic Gladiator PvP items, including armor and weapons, available again with the arrival of patch 5.1. When they return, they will be purchasable with Honor Points from the legacy armor and weapons vendors in Area 52. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Save 50% on Mists of Pandaria – Limited Time Only
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Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
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Don’t delay—this offer ends Thursday, November 29 at 11:59 p.m. PST.

The Daily Blink - It’s a Content Patch, Charlie Brown!
The Daily Blink shares how Warlocks are feeling right now.

This article was originally published in forum thread: Warlock Quest Delayed, Sha of Fear Video, Patch 5.1 Hotfixes, Blue Posts, Comic started by chaud View original post
Published on 2012-11-28 10:38 AM
51 Comments
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  1. zixyon's Avatar
    Something wrong with comments system? show 20 comments count and nothing visible
  1. Azutael's Avatar
    I am glad they decided to put the warlock quest in one patch, rather than spreading it out over several. But I am also a bit sad that I won't get to start it! :O
  1. Holyground's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Eiffeltower View Post
    NO ONE in the warlock community asked for the MoP changes, which are just quite terrible. Most warlocks feel out ouf touch with their spec, their class direction. Furthermore, we are (even more than before) pigeon holed into specs, with some working for PvE, some for PvP

    It's not because we got some change, that that change is
    - warranted (the changes were only made because the class was not played. The didn't fix the bugs / address any of our concerns, just rehauled everything to something mediocre).
    - intelligent.

    The green fire has been on the cards since about 3 years. That's what warlocks have been asking.
    Not a total overhaul of their class that end up being mediocre at best, while no bug fixes are adressed. We would prefer to see real changes being made rather than crap "womg new resource: you got this instead of mana".
    you do not speak for all warlocks, or even most. All three specs are viable now, and two of them are among the highest dps specs in the game currently. The changes made to the class are novel, and work well. Your personal opinion is anecdotal: I love the changes to each of the specs, especially demo.

    Having meta be a more important rotaional tool instead of a cooldown I blow once a fight it's phenomenal. Other than the wand bug, what bug fixes are you talking about?

    Stop saying "we."
  1. Zoma's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by zixyon View Post
    Something wrong with comments system? show 20 comments count and nothing visible
    When you click on the "xx comments" button, it automatically takes you to the last page. Every 20 comments, it makes a new page, but there isn't anything on it yet. It took you to Page 2 of comments, even though all comments were still on Page 1.
  1. shamestia's Avatar
    Lol. Mop started out good..

    Going right down the shitter.
  1. Edlarel's Avatar
    Oh yes, Charlie Brown is totally a warlock. BRB, rerolling bald gnome warlock named charliebrown.
  1. valax's Avatar
    disappointed warlock is disappointed
  1. Rupture91's Avatar
    Best daily blink ever!
  1. Oriana's Avatar
    Paladin (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

    Fixed an issue that could cause Illuminated Healing to apply absorption shields when no healing was generated.
    Does this mean that overheal will no longer apply absorption shield? (can someone check?)
  1. Bonebreaker's Avatar
    Paladin (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
    Fixed an issue that could cause Illuminated Healing to apply absorption shields when no healing was generated.
    that sounds like a huge nerf to mastery
  1. Austilias's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Granyala View Post
    From a lore PoV green fire for warlocks is stupid anyway.

    "Ooh look at mah Imma castin' fel magicz!!"
    From a lore point of view? Maybe if you're reading your WoW books and quest text upside down.

    If there's one thing certain in WoW, it's that Warlocks use fel magic. About time that their fire reflects this, never mind the fact that it'll be a good reflection of the fact that they are in essence, power-hungry mages that embrace the corrupt and the demonic.
  1. MasterHamster's Avatar
    "Elites" whining about Blizzard adding a "hand-holding" element to their UI that they used addons for anyway. I guess installing addons makes you pro.
    Then again, same thing happened when they made castbars that showed what spell the opponent was casting. HAD TO USE AN ADDON FOR THAT TOO. And now all scrubs had it as well! B'aww!

    Warlocks who got a much-needed overhaul to distinguish their specs from eachother, whining about a lack of green flame. Bandwagon crap that has somehow manifested on forums. I wonder how many that play warlock sits around and considers to change class or quit the game because Soul Fire and Incinerate isn't green.

    This community should be studied for science.
  1. Hovsa's Avatar
    50% off on MoP?

    I guess "still over 10 million subs" meant 10 million and 1 sub. haha. (bring it fanbois!)
  1. Fenzha's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Holyground View Post
    you do not speak for all warlocks, or even most. All three specs are viable now, and two of them are among the highest dps specs in the game currently. The changes made to the class are novel, and work well. Your personal opinion is anecdotal: I love the changes to each of the specs, especially demo.

    Having meta be a more important rotaional tool instead of a cooldown I blow once a fight it's phenomenal. Other than the wand bug, what bug fixes are you talking about?

    Stop saying "we."
    http://www.raidbots.com/dpsbot/Spec_...default/#7fvnp
    http://www.raidbots.com/dpsbot/Spec_...default/#7fvnp
    http://www.raidbots.com/dpsbot/Spec_...default/#7fvnp
    http://www.raidbots.com/dpsbot/Spec_...default/#7fvnp

    Definately not 2 as highest... affliction is good atm, demo is maybe mid to low and destro is dragging at the bottom.

    Also the mists changes were in my opinion pretty bad aswell, must mean im part of the minority then right?
  1. Venaliter's Avatar
    Don't worry, Warlocks, It'll be in 5.2...in three months down the road.
  1. outflow's Avatar
    The Daily Blink <3
  1. TheSweetness's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by MasterHamster View Post
    "Elites" whining about Blizzard adding a "hand-holding" element to their UI that they used addons for anyway. I guess installing addons makes you pro.
    Then again, same thing happened when they made castbars that showed what spell the opponent was casting. HAD TO USE AN ADDON FOR THAT TOO. And now all scrubs had it as well! B'aww!

    Warlocks who got a much-needed overhaul to distinguish their specs from eachother, whining about a lack of green flame. Bandwagon crap that has somehow manifested on forums. I wonder how many that play warlock sits around and considers to change class or quit the game because Soul Fire and Incinerate isn't green.

    This community should be studied for science.
    This. All of it. I had to tell one of my friends to shut up about the new CC notifications. It was all he talked about during the raid last night. If you don't want it, turn. it. off. I do that with the buff notifications (I'm too used to BC and having rows of buffs. Just looks weird to me to have them consolidated). I figured out how to turn it off and don't sit around whining about something that I can change myself. "lolz, blizzard hand holding" when you had an add-on that did it better? I guess hand holding is ok as long as it's 3rd party.

    Don't even get me started on warlocks. Instead of just a glyph, you're getting a quest chain that takes you through freakin' BT.

    Quote Originally Posted by Eiffeltower View Post
    As usual, warlocks get shafted on design
    Every shaman reading this is facepalming.
  1. turboblake's Avatar
    Daily Blink is hitting a little too close to home today. This lock is going to go home and cry now.
  1. Zathrendar's Avatar
    Also the mists changes were in my opinion pretty bad aswell, must mean im part of the minority then right?
    I'm conflicted on them. I think afflction and demo are mostly better now. Destro still hasn't been given enough attention. It plays exactly as it once did, just with embers...

    Quote Originally Posted by Alenarien View Post
    From a lore point of view? Maybe if you're reading your WoW books and quest text upside down.

    If there's one thing certain in WoW, it's that Warlocks use fel magic. About time that their fire reflects this, never mind the fact that it'll be a good reflection of the fact that they are in essence, power-hungry mages that embrace the corrupt and the demonic.
    Well the Eredar warlocks themselves use pure fire. So why wouldn't lesser warlocks do so? Their shadow magic isn't blue-green, so why would their fire need to be reddish green? If anything, whilst they power all their spells with fel, they certainly don't imbue them all with it.

    I don't really care for green fire.
  1. Vesci's Avatar
    LOL that is the BEST Daily Blink EVER!!!!!

    ---------- Post added 2012-11-28 at 08:05 PM ----------

    Quote Originally Posted by Eiffeltower View Post
    NO ONE in the warlock community asked for the MoP changes, which are just quite terrible. Most warlocks feel out ouf touch with their spec, their class direction. Furthermore, we are (even more than before) pigeon holed into specs, with some working for PvE, some for PvP

    It's not because we got some change, that that change is
    - warranted (the changes were only made because the class was not played. The didn't fix the bugs / address any of our concerns, just rehauled everything to something mediocre).
    - intelligent.

    The green fire has been on the cards since about 3 years. That's what warlocks have been asking.
    Not a total overhaul of their class that end up being mediocre at best, while no bug fixes are adressed. We would prefer to see real changes being made rather than crap "womg new resource: you got this instead of mana".

    I'm a warlock and I don't feel like you described at all. I'll thank you for not speaking for me in the future. Kindly express your opinions for yourself, or not at all.
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